/alantall(i)-/, LOCUS-la/i-ta-li-
‘precinct’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- subst, c.
- ID
- 2460
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/alantall(i)-/, LOCUS-la/i-ta-li-
‘precinct’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is attested five times in inscriptions from Maraş, Malatya, Tabal and the Amuq, dating from c. 800 to c. 700 BCE.
[A.P.]
1.1.2Forms
| acc. sg. | /alantallin/ | LOCUS-la/i-ta-li-i-na | MARAŞ 14, §2 (Maraş) |
| abl./instr. | /alantalladi/ | LOCUS-la/i-ta-la-ti-i | MARAŞ 14, §12 (Maraş) |
| acc. pl. | /alantallinzi/ | LOCUS-lá/í-i-zi | PALANGA, §7 (Malatya) |
| poss. adj. acc. sg. | /alantallassin/ | “DOMUS-LOCUS”-tà-ta-la-si-[…] | KAYSERİ, §2a (Tabal) |
| unclear | /.../ | LOCUS-la/i-[t]a?-li[-x] | TELL TAYINAT 2, line 1, 5a-b (Amuq) |
[A.P.]
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The phonological interpretation of this word is reasonably secure and based on the shape of its derivational basis /alant-/ ‘place’, but suffers from the same uncertainty regarding the second vowel, which may be /i/ after all.The rhotacized and hypercorrectly spelt 〈“DOMUS-LOCUS”-tà-ta-la-si-[…]〉 at KAYSERİ, §2a does not provide the incontrovertible proof for /a/ as it may seem, since the sign 〈tà〉 (*41) has been found to represent /di/ in some cases, in addition to the far more frequent /da/, cf. Simon 2019f:330f. The suffix /-alla/i-/ is well-known from many other formations and therefore certain.
With respect to the spelling, the attestations consistently include the logogram LOCUS (sign *201), tying the present lexeme securely to its derivational base, but also to the semantic domain around EARTH, since /taskwar(i)-/ ‘earth’ uses the same logogram (there read: TERRA), see Laroche 1960c:109-111.
[AH.B.]
1.1.4Meaning
The basic semantics of this word have been clear for some time, not least because the meaning of its derivational base /alant-/ ‘place’ was transparent from use in the KARATEPE 1 bilingual inscription, cf. the discussion there. The assigned denotation receives contextual support e.g. in MARAŞ 14, §2: *a-wa/i-mu-i za-na LOCUS-la/i-ta-li-i-na á-mi-sa (DOMINUS)na-ni-sá pi-ia-ta, approx. /a=wa=mu zan alantallin amis nanis piyatta/, meaning ‘My master gave this precinct to me, (and I built these military houses for myself)’ (cf. Hawkins 2000a:266).
[AH.B.]
1.1.5Stem
This word represents a substantivized adjective in /-alla/i-/, derived from the noun /alant-/ ‘place’. As a noun, it is treated as a common gender and subject to i-mutation with the change between /a/ and /i/ in the stem clearly visible throughout the paradigm.
[AH.B.]
For the lemma head see HLuw. /arla-/.